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J S Bach's The Goldberg Variations Interpreted by S D Rodrian

by: Mr. S D Rodrian

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Topics: keyboard, bach, variations, aria

The Goldberg Variations is one of the greatest poems in human history. As towering a creative achievement as anything in Homer or Shakespeare. No other [of the great composers] has ever possessed Bach's ability to make music as much a language as Spanish, English or French: Where other composers break into the silence with sounds sublime or glorious, ethereal, noble, or just loud... Bach almost always engages us in a human conversation as effectively as if he were using words.

And whether in the many interpretations of other keyboard players out there or in that personal one playing only within the confines of my own mind... every time I listen to the transcendent masterpiece that is Bach's Art of The Variation I can't help but thank God for the unequaled privilege.

S D Rodrian

Notes

This recording is now going on some twenty-something years and it never was a perfect recording, but I have never once wanted to change a note of it: It is what this great works sounds like when it plays in my mind.

Listening to these pieces I'd advise YOU to keep the volume down so you don't damage your hearing--especially with little headphones & earplugs [if you find you've hurt your hearing, then stop listening to loud music for a few days and you will usually recover UNLESS you keep listening to loud music for prolonged periods of time even after you find you've done some damage to your hearing].

You may want to try to raise the bass a bit as these recordings are a little on the thin side.
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Other S D Rodrian Interpretations:
BOOK ONE of The Well-Tempered Clavier Interpreted by S D Rodrian
BOOK TWO of The Well-Tempered Clavier Interpreted by S D Rodrian
Bach's Keyboard French Suites Interpreted by S D Rodrian
Bach's Keyboard Partitas Interpreted by S D Rodrian
Bach's Keyboard Toccatas Interpreted by S D Rodrian
Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue Interpreted by S D Rodrian
Bach Organ Favorites Interpreted by S D Rodrian
Mozart's Piano Sonatas Interpreted by S D Rodrian
Chopin's Nocturnes Interpreted by S D Rodrian
2 Beethoven Piano Sonatas Interpreted by S D Rodrian
Poems and Stories of S D Rodrian (SITE MIRROR)

Addeddate: 2006-05-13 21:48:31

External_metadata_update: 2019-03-13T03:59:38Z

Identifier: BACH_ART_OF_THE_VARIATION

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Reviewer: DjR - - November 14, 2011
Subject: Another thanks

These recordings, and all the others by Mr. S D Rodrian on Archive.org, are a wonderful gift. I may not be the most discerning or knowledgeable of listeners, but for me his piano recordings make for simply superb listening.

Reviewer: James Banks - - May 28, 2008
Subject: Thanks

Maybe these aren't perfectly played... I don't care. Many a long night of math has been eased by this music.

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